Well, I finally found another rare poster to add to my Chuck E. Cheese collection. It's from the late 1970s and is one of the few images from the period when he smoked a cigar.
I bought it through another board from another member. The guy is also a CEC collector and was selling expensive reprints of the parody posters like he one I had restored earlier, so I figured he knew how to ship a poster safely. Well, I figured wrong. I have an account at the local UPS Store where they hold my packages for me. You can imagine the sinking feeling I got when they handed me this.
I haven't opened the box yet, but it doesn't even feel like there's a tube inside. It's not so much the money, the thing that really pisses me off is there are very few of these and now there's one less in nice condition. It survived 35+ years and now it's ruined because of bad shipping.